Over the last few weeks, we have reviewed the iPhone’s Component Vendors. Here is a recap of the articles: iPhone’s Inside Beneficiaries provides an overview of the various players. We covered Samsung, one of the top component providers, who also has the manufacturing and design capabilities to become the iPhone’s major competitor in the future.
We discussed earlier, that Intel has decided to work on a chip that would power iPhone’s competitors. Other companies will also try to go after this important hyper-integrated chip that combines processing power, lowers power consumption to the limits, and handles high-end functions like video, GPS, etc. In the entire semiconductor landscape, the company that